Rhaedas

Popular Science had an “open source” robot lawnmower plans in the…80s? I have it somewhere. Old enough that it used deep cycle lead-acid batteries and spinning round dremel blades. No laser to cut the grass, although it did use LEDs for sensors for grass height.

I have cats, and two Eufys, one for each floor. I don’t run them every day since the cats are all shorthair and it takes a bit to add up, but it’s nice to just let it go for a bit and check in.

And do that. Don’t assume the vacuum is strong enough to suck things all the way in. They can easily be clogged the first run through and then you’re just pushing crap around. Should carry the lesson over to any automation. Trust to a certain level, but know what it can and cannot do and when to step in.

This would mean any liquid in plastic is a large source. Bottled water has other options, not so much the rest. I mean they could have different packaging and some do, but cost is a reason plastic is primarily used.

Isolation or minimal contact is not only another option, it always has been the first option to consider. It’s difficult to do in our society, so we have other things like masking and distancing, but a virus can’t spread to/from you if you’re not around other persons.

My 2007 just clicked over to 271K miles and I’m going to keep it running as long as possible. It has all normal bells and whistles of a limited version, but was built before all this madness began. It’s a CAR.

Made the mistake of thinking I could spray one of the big Florida ones, coming from a place where I was used to the German cockroach. He did not die. He was however very pissed and tried to get me through the door I managed to shut in time.

First, no one knows if the picture is someone connected or a stolen cam footage to use. So we don’t know any identity. Could be automated or could be individually sent out. More important is the question of restrictions of postings in some way. How would one do this before the first attempts by each new user profile? When they first started there were a few other names used, but for whatever reason (ease or maybe enjoying the attention now) Nicole has become the one seen, through various instances that would each have to set up their own ban.

As for what the point is, that could be asked of so many phishing and spam attempts. Often times they’re so bad that even if you wanted to, the links are incomplete or don’t make sense. Spam calls can be the same way. Usually letting them go to voicemail gets them to hang up before anything is left, but I’ve heard some live and recorded where it doesn’t even get through the spiel. What was the point? Maybe to establish a connection…or maybe just badly planned implementation.

Anyway, no one knows yet about Nicole, and honestly if it wasn’t just the single name and picture/info, it would all just be part of the constant spam that’s out there. Perhaps “they” hit on a formula to retain recognition, but now just don’t know what to do with it.

There are people in positions of power who have the ability to ask this question and start the process. That they still don’t suggests a lot more than just one crazy individual leading the madness.

Asterisks! Asterisks everywhere!

Painful would be the several (!) times I had to check the computer over after they fell for a tech help scam and lost money. The stupid thing was that if someone tried to sell them something on the street or phone they were smart enough to refuse, but for some reason a popup on the computer makes things legit. Even after it was a scam the last time it happened. Why?

There are many more lesser events that aren’t painful as much as just tedious, but I think having some patience and knowing what to tell them (vs. actually explaining it) helped. I tried to reduce the complexity and lock things down, but in the end it was just easier to come over and fix the problem every now and then.

He’s really helping things along with all these acts of stability, consistency, and predictability. Stuff businesses thrive on. Maybe the business world outside of the stock market (which the manipulation of is what this may all be about anyway) is just ignoring the day to day until something persists long enough to even get into the daily supply chain.

Banks may come to them, but hardly knocking with demands. ‘If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.’ And how they interact with banks, loans, etc. is far different in scale and method than the average consumer anyway.

Probably skimmed fast and missed the “than”. Probably.

Looks like just posts from Lemmy instances. Now, are replies posts? I don’t think so, I think it’s original topics. But many replies from Lemmy users are going to be to outside sources, so there’s a lot going on!

Using it to share data can be a nightmare, especially since different departments might look at that data in various ways and want their own formats. I work for a Fortune 500 company that, at least at my level of management, emailing around attached full spreadsheets of daily data rather than have a centralized database. I’ve fought it for years, but it’s what the higher ups want…stupid.

Even better when Microsoft puts out improvements like 365 and OneDrive that break certain functions, then depreciates Excel itself. God I hate the cloud.

We have always been at war with Eggs have always been expensive.

There could be some maximum threshold or critical number where people’s discussions goes downhill, regardless of the infrastructure. So while the idea of splintering into new communities that share names and topics was initially a big concern with the Reddit migration, calling for a way to imitate a Reddit sole source, perhaps it’s better to allow diversification even if some things aren’t directly and timely shared.

James Horner nailed the starship motif. I enjoy the various other composers’ works as well, but Horner is my top for Trek.

Howard Shore for all the Tolkien work. His music alone will paint the image of Middle Earth in my head.

And Hans Zimmer has some stuff I love, like Time, but he did his best job imo for Dune.

I first saw that pose or similar back in an old Star Trek TOS episode where Spock is in the captain’s chair. But he ain’t Spock. Hell, he isn’t even Ferengi level.

Finally, a trolley problem for reality. Only it turns out not to be a problem for the guy at the lever like it’s usually presented.